[ Sorry for the interruption of the usual MetaBrainz tasks here, but we had a problem where a package we relied upon was not suited for pushing to our production servers. So, as a community effort we fixed this problem and this blog post is to let the general public know about our efforts. ]
The non-metric space library has some impressive fuzzy matching search features that we wanted to use for our metadata matching services. However, the library refused to install on Python 3.10/3.11. Nor were the recent binary packages working.
To address this, we enabled Python 3.10/3.11 support and built binary packages for Windows, Mac and of course, Linux. The code and automation for building new packages is in our clone of the nmslib library.
You can download the packages from PyPi and if you change your dependency from “nmslib” to “nmslib-metabrainz” you should be able to use our packages on Python 3.10/3.11.
However, we do not plan to make any further releases or feature improvements to this package, so please don’t ask us to do so. If anyone would like to adopt the improved version and continue to make releases, we’d be very grateful for someone to clone the repository and to carry on the work we’ve done.
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